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This Editorial highlights some potential pitfalls occasionally encountered within point-to-point response letters to the reviewers.

This Editorial introduces the roll-out of transparent peer review at Nature Catalysis.

Agentic workflows powered by large language models are beginning to assist chemists in literature search, summarization, and outline drafting. Though they remain unable to replace expert insight, these systems promise to reshape how reviews are prepared — shifting the human role from exhaustive curator to creative synthesizer, empowered by intelligent, always-on review-copilots.

This Editorial provides a few highlights from the present issue of Nature Catalysis and reflects on some of the achievements from the editorial team in 2024.

This Editorial deals with scientific language in research papers, considering the causes — as well as the problems — associated with the use of hyperbolic statements.